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but i use the diaries more than i use the memoirs. >> how extensive? >> not every day, but pretty extensive. he leaves after a couple of years but is brought in sporadically. he is useful for the first couple of years of eisenhower's administration. >> jackson? >> a psychological warfare adviser. he had a lot of theories, lots bad, a few good. he was way out there on wanting to do crazy covert action against the soviet union. >> of all of these diaries, which was the best penmanship? >> some were typed. >> who was the best writer? >> hughes was the most writerly, but snyder was the most honest. >> who was bernard shanley? >> he was a confidential appointment secretary, a new jersey lawyer, a hack. he kept copious diaries. he wrote about what it felt to be around ike. he would catch ike's charm and anger. >> looking at the time period, and looking at the president, compare that with today. jim hagerty vs j kearney. >> the press secretary had a real control. the press was not as adversarial in the 1950's. they would drink with hagerty and they would hang
but i use the diaries more than i use the memoirs. >> how extensive? >> not every day, but pretty extensive. he leaves after a couple of years but is brought in sporadically. he is useful for the first couple of years of eisenhower's administration. >> jackson? >> a psychological warfare adviser. he had a lot of theories, lots bad, a few good. he was way out there on wanting to do crazy covert action against the soviet union. >> of all of these diaries, which was...
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to beat us down. >> humiliate us. >> why? what good is that? they don't care. that's the biggest problem. >> how much do they blame the north american free trade agreement for this? >> there's a lot of talk of nafta. >> lot of -- this plant they're talking about shuts down. >> basically the men are rehired in mexico. it already moved most of its operation. this is the last plant opened. when you look at what the employees are making, i believe it's $3.52 an hour all end. there was no way to these guys could have actually accepted, i believe, that would have convinced or persuaded this company to stay. there in lies the real conversation. we need to bring corporate america to the table in some kind of way because it's just going -- to be on price, everyone will be laid off. this just articulates what that looks like. you hear about both candidates now, the shrinking for the middle class. the middle class is going away. what does that actually mean? what does that look like. in detroit, making this film "detropia," we sort of experience what that looks and feels
to beat us down. >> humiliate us. >> why? what good is that? they don't care. that's the biggest problem. >> how much do they blame the north american free trade agreement for this? >> there's a lot of talk of nafta. >> lot of -- this plant they're talking about shuts down. >> basically the men are rehired in mexico. it already moved most of its operation. this is the last plant opened. when you look at what the employees are making, i believe it's $3.52 an...
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you always worry about being used, but the presumption always is that at the same time you are using them. we're not going to be patsies for any administration, and i do not think we ever have been. >> i want to run video of don hewitt. how many years to do know him? >> i knew him from the very beginning of my life at cbs, 1964. he was the executive producer of cbs evening news, the cronkite news, when i joined. shortly after he was fired, and was in a kind of limbo or siberia for a couple of years. i did a documentary for them in 1968. don was the nominal executive producer. so i have known him for a long time. when we came up with this idea of "60 minutes," he became a kind of willy loman. he put together a reel of all cbs reports using 10 or 15 minute segments, taking the best of each of them and putting together a reel he went shopping that around to every executive at cbs. he brought that to me, to others, trying to sell and get support for his idea of this thing he called "60 minutes." he had harry reasoner, the original host in, call this a pilot if you like. then he added mik
you always worry about being used, but the presumption always is that at the same time you are using them. we're not going to be patsies for any administration, and i do not think we ever have been. >> i want to run video of don hewitt. how many years to do know him? >> i knew him from the very beginning of my life at cbs, 1964. he was the executive producer of cbs evening news, the cronkite news, when i joined. shortly after he was fired, and was in a kind of limbo or siberia for a...
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strengthened us. you realize after a while that, people are going to say what they will say and you need to do your duty and your job. i believe we are doing something important for the country to try to get reliable information to people. it does not matter what anybody says. the second thing you realize is there is tremendous support for what is being done, even in a situation where, by the company's own admission, they poorly handled a very public situation. even in that terrible circumstances, there has continued to be tremendous support for what we are doing on the air. we heard from the public and we continue to hear from the public. it is a system all across the country that only exists because people volunteer to pay for it. if people did not do that, it would be out of business tomorrow. that support continues. >> how concerned are you a faction of government will come after npr again. what impact would it be on npr if the federal money went away? >> two different questions. there will be peo
strengthened us. you realize after a while that, people are going to say what they will say and you need to do your duty and your job. i believe we are doing something important for the country to try to get reliable information to people. it does not matter what anybody says. the second thing you realize is there is tremendous support for what is being done, even in a situation where, by the company's own admission, they poorly handled a very public situation. even in that terrible...
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i do not believe he used that word. he gave a famous speech in which he said to this country which was mostly muslim but had millions of hindus and many other kinds of people, that the state has business that is separate from religion. you were free to go to your temples, you're mosques, but they are separate. we are not going to discriminate based on color, cast, or creed. it was an amazing the progressive speech in 1947. it would have been an amazingly progressive speech in the united states at the time. that was one vision of how to have a majority muslim country. the other vision is represented in my book and i believe in history by the founder of a muslim party, and the islamist party, that remains in pakistan today. it is powerful and has spawned other parties over the years. you could call him a fundamentalist. i do not see that word used in this period, either. he believed people should follow the clear commands of islam, the basic commands, and not go beyond that. >> let me read what you quote him as saying. he
i do not believe he used that word. he gave a famous speech in which he said to this country which was mostly muslim but had millions of hindus and many other kinds of people, that the state has business that is separate from religion. you were free to go to your temples, you're mosques, but they are separate. we are not going to discriminate based on color, cast, or creed. it was an amazing the progressive speech in 1947. it would have been an amazingly progressive speech in the united states...
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for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at www.q-and- a.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> i get into trouble a couple of years ago making a speech in canada. i was talking about journalism. journalism --'t citizen in journalism. you need to work within a certain discipline. many of these others give up the real thing a bad name. >> next sunday, on his career and the state of journalism today. at 8:00 on c-span. >> see the first of the presidential debates on wednesday live to watch and engaged. next, your comments on "washington journal." ton, a citizen's guide watching the presidential debates. live at 7:00 p.m., a debate in the massachusetts senate race. >> every generation throughout our history has worked and sacrificed to leave a better country for our children and grandchildren. we were spending their money. we are now even much more spending their money. we are leaving them a vast, a very difficult problem to deal with if we are that week, just think of who will come and take a sober. the last thing i ever wan
for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at www.q-and- a.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> i get into trouble a couple of years ago making a speech in canada. i was talking about journalism. journalism --'t citizen in journalism. you need to work within a certain discipline. many of these others give up the real thing a bad name. >> next sunday, on his career and the state of journalism today. at 8:00 on...